GW2. Raid Build. Power Catalyst DPS Build. Power Hammer Quickness Catalyst. Elementalist PvE. Group PvE Build.
Role: DPS
The Power Catalyst DPS is an elementalist build that uses a hammer and provides boons to its party such as might, protection, and quickness. It can go for full DPS or a Quickness-providing variant. When running the quickness variant, always prioritize using Jade Spheres on your squad to apply quickness.
Constantly rotate through your attunements and use the Orb abilities on skill 3. These give buffs and then refresh the orb durations until you can’t put any more up and will need to use the Grand Finale (3). The main idea of the rotation is to stack up all of your damage modifiers from the Relentless Fire and Shattering Ice utility buffs as well as all of the hammer orbs while your pulsing AoEs are out so that most of the damage modifiers align with most of your damaging skills.
Jade Spheres require 10 energy to use and the cap is 30. You gain this resource by hitting enemies but unless you are playing the quickness variant, while a Jade Sphere is out you cannot gain energy. It is preferred to use Jade Spheres within a short window to give your energy time to reset before the next burst rotation. You must use Relentless Fire inside your Fire Jade Sphere and Shattering Ice inside your Water Jade Sphere, so always make sure to order those correctly. If you are using the Sphere Specialist trait in the quickness build, use the spheres as soon as possible.
Skill Priority
- Cast Glyph of Storms in Fire Attunement.
- Cast Relentless Fire in your Fire Jade Sphere, and Shattering Ice in your Water Jade Sphere.
- Use the fifth (5) skill in each attunement to combo finisher in your Jade Spheres to gain auras that give extra stats while transitioning to the next attunement.
- Minimize your animation downtime by casting the instant cast skills such as Jade Spheres and the orbs during your longer hammer 2 skill animations at the beginning of every attunement swap. Make sure to learn the duration of the 2 skills as their full duration can be canceled early by pressing other skills with animations in the rotation.
Example Rotation:
- Fire Attunement > Glyph of Storms > 2 + 3 > 4 > 3 (until full on Jade Energy)
- Fire Jade Sphere + 5 > Relentless Fire > Swap Water
- Water 2 + 3 + Jade Sphere > Shattering Ice > 4/5 (whichever is up) > Swap Air
- Air 2 + 3 + Jade Sphere > 5 > Swap Earth
- Earth 2 + 3 > 5 > Swap Fire
- Repeat
Use Glyph of Elementals in Fire Attunement and recast the attack command whenever it is off cooldown since it has no cast time.
CC – Crowd Control Skills:
- Air 4, Air 5
Item | Stat | Rune / Sigil |
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Helm Berserker | ||
Shoulders Berserker | ||
Coat Berserker | ||
Gloves Berserker | ||
Leggings Berserker | ||
Boots Berserker |
Hammer Berserker |
|
Item | Stat |
---|---|
Amulet Berserker | |
Ring Berserker | |
Ring Berserker | |
Accessory Berserker | |
Accessory Berserker | |
Berserker Berserker |
Fractal x18 | |
Optional x18 |
Hammer | Heal / Utility / Elite |
Variants
- Quickness Variant requires the following Catalyst traits, and to use the Jade Spheres (F5) as soon as possible when swapping attunements.
DPS Variant
Chat Code: (copy/paste into in-game chat)
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Quickness Variant
Chat Code: (copy/paste into in-game chat)
[&DQYfHSkfQz50AHUA7hpPAfga6wC+AZAAJgCWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=]
Gameplay:
4 Comments
Build Copy link provides completely different build, why?
fixed that, thanks
In this build, Jade sphere doesn’t give quickness since spectacular spear isn’t taken, or am I missing something? I’ve been playing it with the talents above, but im not sure where quickness comes from without it.
You’re correct, the builds are still in the process of being updated. You can just take that trait since that would be the change.